With Adhesive Games’ mech shooter Hawken’s open beta launching on Wednesday, it’s an exciting time for mech fans. Meteor Entertainment’s CEO Mark Long talks to PCGamesN about the challenges they faced, how the team ramped the game up without taxing player’s systems, free-to-play and why we probably won’t see the game on consoles.

The closed beta testing period of Codemaster’s free-to-play PC management title, F1 Online will come to an end on Tuesday June 19 in preparation for the open beta. In addition, the non-disclosure agreement that closed beta participants have been bound by will also expire on June 19, freeing all and sundry to talk about their […]

The Battlestar Galactica MMO was created by man. It evolved. It rebelled. There are many copies. And it has a plan… To enter open beta in a couple weeks. (Ok, so maybe it’s not the most eventful rebellion.)

Loads of Beta news this week in MMO round-up. IncGamers made good on its promise, and has posted part-two of its Aion Beta preview, Mortal Online’s second stage of Beta testing begins soon, CrimeCraft started its Beta and Alganon is prepping for one. Loads of MMO are going to be coming out soon, and there […]

The open beta for browser-based shooter Quake will go live on February 24, id confirmed today. The classic game is for competitive play, complete with leaderboards and matchmaking. And all for free. Stats will be wiped from closed beta participants in preparation for launch.

Sony’s officially recognised that many users are unable to connect to PlayStation Home, releasing a short message on the PS Blog saying it’s working on fixes. “We are aware that some people may be experiencing difficulty in accessing the PlayStation Home beta at present,” said SCEA corporate comms boss Patrick Seybold. “This is due to […]

Eurogamer’s impressions of Home have gone live, and they’re less than complimentary. Did you know you have to pay to create a “club” (guild)? We didn’t. Snip: You can probably forget about Clubs to be honest, since Sony is charging GBP 3.99 for the privilege of forming one. Not only that, but in the future […]

Connection issues Home was experiencing last night appear to have eased. And when we say “eased,” we mean we had no problem logging on this morning. Following the release of the app last night, many users complained of error messages and an inability to get Home to load. Time-out messages were also experienced. Hopefully it […]

Home’s here, Sony’s announced in a note on the PS Blog, confirming that the little logo is now available in the XMB of all PS3 owners worldwide. “Getting to this point has required a tremendous amount of participation, input, care, and passion from the thousands of beta testers who helped make PlayStation Home what it […]

Multiple users are complaining that they’re unable to access the now-launched PlayStation Home. We’re getting no joy with it here at all, although some are reportedly able to launch, so we’re assuming it’s a load issue. When trying to access the app, a network error C-991 is repeatedly served with the message, “The connection to […]

PlayStation Home is now available for download to all PS3 users. We’re in the UK and downloading now. The Home logo appears under the PSN section of the XMB if the download’s available for you. More soon.

Update: PSN’s now down. Hold on to your hats. Update 2: PSN’s back up, but still no home. The Dog explains, posting at 5.55pm: “Apologies for the delay in an update, you may have noticed a PSN outage in the last hour. Things seem back on track now although the outage delayed us a little […]

SCEE’s refused to confirm or deny a Times Online report yesterday that said Home’s open beta was to launch in the next ten days. “We’re not commenting on that story, I’m afraid,” a rep told VG247 this afternoon. The piece said open beta was to launch by December 17. Sony’s constant line on the social […]

The Times Online’s run a piece saying Home’s open beta is to release in the next ten days, or before December 17. SCEE’s constantly said open beta will hit this year, so there’s likely to be truth in this. We’re checking with Sony now.